Our Professor Impressive and Doctor What?’s Science Activity Book is featured in Tictail’s Christmas Picks!!
You can pick it up for just 2 euro over at our shop!
Author: Lisa Crowne
A4er Ros Lee’s Exhibition in Tokyo continues until 27th Dec
Ros Lee is a Singapore-born designer that has been living and working in Japan since 2005. After several years of working as an in-house designer, Ros decided to strike out on her own. In 2011 she began working as a design consultant and officially launched the Polkaros brand.
“Polkaros will be showcasing their first handcrafted collection of lifestyle products in their upcoming exhibition and pop up store in Tokyo. The event will be held at Galerie Doux Dimanche Aoyama from 10 － 27 December, 2013. This collection consists of uniquely handcrafted ceramic flower pots and planters, Japanese traditional fabric, Tenugui, gift wrapping paper with original Polkaros patterns and more.
The Polkaros Parade is a gathering of Polkaros designed characters and a celebration of colors, patterns and items that were crafted to add a touch of warmth to a home and put smiles on faces. Polkaros products are inspired by traditional Japanese crafts, but influenced by modern Tokyo lifestyles, offering a mix of classic and modern.”
Surprise Gift with your order if you spend 15 euro or more in our shop before 18th Dec!!
Now is the time to pick up some Christmas Gifts for your family and friends and we’ll give you a little something for being so good!
What’s on your Christmas Tree?
We’ve started to make our Christmas decorations!! We put the first layers of paint on the bobbles last night. Today we are making them super cute! If you celebrate Christmas send us some photos of your home-made decorations.
Christmas is approaching fast….
Do two great things at once, get a friend a hand-printed present and support an arts organisation at the same time!!! You don’t even need to leave the house!!!
T-shirts, badges, bags, art books all available over at our shop! Or if you are in Rathmines you can pop into the Mart Gallery and Shop, 190a Rathmines Road Lower, Dublin 6.
Go on do a nice thing!!!
We are looking for a builder, plumber and an electrician this week for a bit of advice.
Do you know any lovely ones in the Dublin area that might be able to help us this week?
If so please forward their details here or a4sounds@gmail.com
Thanks
A4
Northsiders’ Museum’s programme for the Northside Arts Trail 16th – 31st May
“The Northsiders’ Museum is a place for memories, tall tales and maybe even some songs, as told to us by the people of the Northside of Dublin, Ireland.
The Museum is a ‘pop-up’ museum currently housed within an empty shop space beside the Post Office in the Northside Shopping Centre.
The Museum is interested in making visible the culture of Coolock, Artane, Darndale, Belcamp, Priorswood and adjacent areas. Come in and tell us your stories, sing us a song, show us your photographs. The Museum is both a recording point for living culture and a space that interrogates place-making in the context of suburbias built for specific communities.”
16-31st – Open Call for our “CITIZENS’ EXHIBITION”
If you have anything that you would like to exhibit then we want to see it. Drop in between 2pm and 5pm Thurs – Sat each week.
16-31st – Open Call for “THE NORTHSIDE”
Send us your images of “The Northside”. You can drop them in between 2pm and 5pm Thurs – Sat each week or email them to lisacrowne@gmail.com. We welcome new and old images, All images will be edited together and projected during our closing party. If you drop into the museum over the 3 weeks we will print and add the images to the Citizens’ Exhibition.
18th
3pm-5pm – Amaze Engine’s Banana Piano and Giant Tape Deck
Come play with some interactive noise machines. We have created a fun environment for you to experiment with a piano made from bananas and a giant record player made from tape cassettes, cardboard, bit of wood and bits and pieces!
www.a4sounds.org
www.facebook.com/gamepakcollective
23rd
3pm-5pm – Circuit Bending Workshop with Andy Edgar
6pm-8pm – Gamepak Performance
Circuit bending is the creative short-circuiting & modification of the circuitry of kid’s toys or battery-powered musical instruments to create strange, outlandish, unintended, and unpredictable sounds. By building in controls, adding switches or knobs you can control these sounds to create new, unique instruments.
If interested we would ask people to bring along a battery-powered, sound-making electronic device to tinker with. Charity shops are a good hang out for suitable devices! Not every toy can be bent, but in any event there’ll be some extra toys provided to mess with – and all tools and additional components will be provided. The workshop is suitable for complete beginners to the more advanced who wish to develop their skills.
www.facebook.com/gamepakcollective
24th
2pm-5pm – Tea Party with Naive Ted
6pm-8pm – Naive Ted Performance
Bring along some records and stories to go along with them! Naive Ted will talk about his favourite records, ask you about yours and fill you with tea and cake!
www.facebook.com/pages/Deviant-Naive-Ted
www.soundcloud.com/deviantandnaiveted
25th
3pm-5pm – Amaze Engine’s Music Draw Box
Come along an play with our interactive wall. Create images and sound at the same time. Visitors will be invited to draw and colour on a wall of the museum and see how our music box created by Simon Kenny turns the marks made into sound. All ages welcome!
www.bitwiseoperator.bandcamp.com
www.a4sounds.org
www.facebook.com/gamepakcollective
30th
2pm-5pm – A4 Sounds has Animal Magnetism Workshop
Participants will make magnetic art which will be hidden around the Shopping Centre to find during the Citizens’ Exhibition! All work will be added to the ongoing project online. All ages welcome!
www.a4soundshasanimalmagnetism.wordpress.com
31st
4pm-9pm – CITIZENS EXHIBITION Closing Party!
Final exhibition of all your art! Come along for some drinks, some music and hopefully a bit of a dance
The Northsiders’ Museum
The Northside Shopping Centre
Oscar Traynor Road
Coolock
Dubline 17
www.facebook.com/northsiders.museum
www.northsidersmuseum.wordpress.com
www.beinspired.ie
A4er Adam Power aka Alien Hand’s “Be Seeing You” Released Today!
“Released today. Alien Hand’s ‘Be Seeing You’ gets the rework treatment from the brilliant Encrypter.
Complimenting the original but drastically different. Encrypter is carving a reputation in being the go to guy for techno on the heaviest electronics.
A free download but… available for one week only so grab it quick.”
www.http://elperrorojorecords.com
www.soundcloud.com/thealienhand
The race IS ON to get this finished for the morning…
Fingers crossed it works!!
Professor Impressive and Doctor What? Science Activity Books Now Available.
Activity books cost 3 euro. All proceeds go towards running costs of our studio.
If you would like one please get in contact via A4SOUNDS at gmail dot com. Some will be available at the Harold’s Cross Community Festival tomorrow too!
Design by Lisa Crowne and Donal Holland from the exhibition What is ><3m tall?